From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlcfE-0002TI-0X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:02:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A76EFE0746; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:01:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp205.alice.it (smtp205.alice.it [82.57.200.101]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D69FE0746 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:01:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from infra.agr.fm (87.14.4.246) by smtp205.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4C1A264503919154 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:01:38 +0200 Received: from [192.168.64.9] (silver.agr.fm [192.168.64.9]) by infra.agr.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151FD5DD128 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:01:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C6B8551.20103@alyf.net> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:01:37 +0200 From: Andrea Conti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerate portage cache from scratch following a big toe crash? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1617177e-59a1-4a2f-a1cf-982ff883ba1d X-Archives-Hash: 4b1c166952c8b08350638e12aef90b01 Hi, > sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at > __exactly__ the height of the main power button on my APC UPS, and > darn if I don't hit it and power is gone! Back in the old days I had a trusty desktop 286 which sat on a piece of furniture at approximately knee level, with a very prominent "reset" button on the front panel... need I say more? > Can't read cache file > /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success > Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. > Can't read cache file > How does a big-toe guy regenerate the database emerge --sync normally > keeps for my machine? First make sure all your filesystems are ok (touch /forcefsck and reboot). Second, I am not sure whether eix is complaining about the portage tree metadata (which is rsynced with the rest of the tree and not kept by emerge, so it shouldn't get corrupted) or its own cache. You can regenerate the former locally with emerge --metadata; if it doesn't help (and I don't think it will) I would try deleting the contents of /var/cache/eix and manually running eix-update. HTH, andrea